A lightweight framework for writing asynchronous network applications. Pants is single-threaded and callback oriented, also includes a HTTP server with Websockets implementation, WSGI support and a simple web framework.

It seems that creating FUSE filesystems in Python can be very easy with help from the fuse-python and fusepy libraries. In this author goes through the steps of creating an encrypted file system layer in Python.

Use the peewee ORM to load csv files into a database and explore them programmatically. Very neat, uses reddit public datasets to quickly determine things like average ratio of upvotes to downvotes and average number of comments.